With Thanksgiving just around the corner, local ministers have decided to double up on the community-wide service this year. Simpsonville United Methodist Pastor Lenny Marr, chairman of the Shelby County Ministerial Alliance, said the main reason the decision was made to hold two Thanksgiving services next week is to generate support

Government offices closed for Thanksgiving In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, all government offices, banks and schools will be closed on Thursday. Shelby County Public Schools also will be closed today and Friday.

Jeana Searcy, charged in the traffic death of her best friend a few days before graduation, and Timothy Carpenter, who was sitting in a truck when a friend was fatally wounded, have pleaded guilty in Shelby County Circuit Court.

Alyson Myatt still gets choked up when she talks about the night she ran barefoot through a burning house to rescue a 5-year-old boy.

Though he is very young, Aden Gray Hawes already knows the meaning of trust more fully than most adults ever will.

And you can’t imagine how much of that trust was at play last March, when Myatt dashed through flames and pulled Aden from his bedroom in the home owned by his guardian on Golden Rod Court in Shelbyville.

Although the topic was not on Tuesday’s agenda Shelby County Fiscal Court, the Shelbyville Bypass continued to dominate talk, even when finished. “People have been calling me about intersections on the [Shelbyville] Bypass,” said magistrate Allen Ruble, amid nods of agreement from others.